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"Mario 64 was 60 dollars in 1995 meaning that it would be about 100 dollars today"

Pay has NOT kept up with inflation. People are poorer.

Folk need to stop pretending like people have as much money as they did in the 90s. Rent costs, house prices are astronomical.

Xbox's business is still impacted today by outpricing people with their initial Xbox One reveal pricing a decade ago.

Nintendo Treehouse comments are absolutely packed with people complaining about prices.

Again, I'm vastly aware that game budgets, inflation etc have increased!

but Pay has NOT increased accordingly. I don't know the solution, but that's the reality.

And I make these points as someone who is lucky enough to earn well enough to just buy them regardless. Most aren't as fortunate.

Game bubbles regularly disregard the poor, unfortunately, as the industry has an above-average number of middle-class background workers.

Price increases combined with physical knock effectively prices the poor out of legally gaming (Buying directly from them/the digital store)

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Evidently you aren't embarrassed to be a communist because you don't even know what communism is. There's no meaningful pushback to exploitation in America because it's a racist settler-colonial monster of a country.

I don't have health insurance, or a well paying job, or savings, or really any significant future prospects at all, but I can still recognize that what I do have is built on imperialism, on the backs of people around the world who have it much, much worse than I do. So when I see posts like "video game too expensive :(((" or "life is so hard making over double the minimum wage" in between posts about the newest Israeli massacre then yeah, it's kinda fucking hard to give a shit.

I'm just gonna stop replying because nothing I say is going to convince you of anything, and nothing you say is going to convince me America deserves anything other than a nuke

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

“Double the minimum wage” and it hasn’t been upped in 30 years.

You’re a miserable pos who’s political understanding is driven by wanting to see people as miserable as you, you’re not meaningfully different from any chud that’s self aware about imperialism.